Recall Sessions: Pentavirate — Anthony Da Costa and Russell Durham

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Two live takes, Pentavirate Studios

Recorded by Bobby Holland at Pentavirate Studios, Nashville, TN.

Microphones on this session

SF-2SF-24VR-12

Every ribbon straight into an Undertone Audio MPDI-4 preamp, through Lynx converters and an API The Box 2 console. No EQ on any track.

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Two live takes from the Pentavirate Sessions in Nashville: Anthony Da Costa on guitar with Russell Durham on fiddle and mandolin. Every track here is a single Royer ribbon on its own, straight into an Undertone Audio MPDI-4 preamp, with no EQ.

Take 1 pairs the steel-string acoustic with fiddle, each on an SF-2, with an SF-24V on the guitar. Take 2 moves to a Nashville-strung acoustic and mandolin, each on an R-12, with the SF-24V in stereo.

Russell Durham and Anthony Da Costa recording live at Pentavirate Studios, Nashville — Russell Durham (left) and Anthony Da Costa in the live room at Pentavirate Studios.

Russell Durham playing mandolin into a Royer R-12 — R-12 on Russell Durham’s mandolin.

Anthony Da Costa playing a Nashville-strung acoustic into a Royer R-12 — R-12 on Anthony Da Costa’s Nashville-strung acoustic.

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